Greg? Puciato doesn't even growl bro

I am struggling to understand the whole "tour stop in Oklahoma " thing.

whats so difficult?

You must never have been there

Oklahoma is terrible. It's one of our worst states by almost every metric, including stolen sports teams.

I'm glad to see they're playing a lot of these places, since some of these cities either have never seen SG or it's been since the early 90s for others. But the sad thing is that they're playing a lot of really shitty rock festivals, and I have to think that a group as well-known and legendary as SG should be able to do better.

I'm sure fans on a secondary ZZ Top message board are saying the same thing.

They Heard it on the X.

I don't think a smaller club tour of more conventional markets would nab Soundgarden the same take that a festival tour would. They'd be playing to smaller rooms, and may even have to do more shows to get the same net profit (depends on how much % they get for headlining a festival). They'd have to haul their gear and support staff around more, whereas they can offload some of that work to the festival organizers. Plus they'd be playing for the converted on a smaller, more conventional tour. A festival tour allows them to get warmed up for the studio, hopefully nab some new, younger fans, and minimize their overhead while on the road (plus it's guaranteed ticket sales).

They played at Red Rocks on their first comeback tour. This time they are playng the fillmore.

Wasn't that a co-headlining show with NIN, though?

guys i don't know if SG is as big as we might think they are

this is actually very true

Theyve played twice there. with NIN in 2014 and Mars Volta in 2011.

I don't know, they were never "Pearl Jam big".

As far as I can tell, as of 2012 they had sold 12.5 million records in the U.S.

For context, Ten has sold 10 million alone.

Never realized before how Black Saturday is sort of a redux of Head Down.

I don't hear it.

I don't know, just struck me today. It's like the bridge in Black Saturday is a condensed version of Head Down. But maybe not.

Which, as everyone knows, is why they named it 10.

I'm not even sure if Soundgarden is as big as Alice In Chains minus Layne. Here's the question...would a Audioslave reunion tour be bigger than a Soundgarden tour?